Levin Buchius
Levin Buchius (* 1550 in Werdau , Electorate of Saxony ; † August 23, 1613 in Königsberg i. Pr. ) Was a German legal scholar in the Duchy of Prussia .
Life
Buchius attended the universities in Marburg , Wittenberg , Jena and Tübingen . In 1588 he was employed in Königsberg as a Prussian court judge. He accompanied the Duchess Marie Eleonore von Jülich-Kleve-Berg to her father's court. He received his doctorate at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen , and in 1593 he became the first professor of law at the Albertus University in Königsberg .
He wrote some dissertations , e.g. B. Disputatio sistens quaestionum in jure feudali occurrentium centuriam (1594), and stood out above all through its legislative activity. At the urging of the East Prussian estates and the Elector Johann Sigismund , he worked on the draft of the general land law, which was published after his death in 1620 as the land law of the Duchy of Prussia . Buchius also took part in the organizational tasks of the Königsberg University. In the summer semesters of 1594, 1598, 1602, 1604 and 1608 he was rector .
literature
- Emil Julius Hugo Steffenhagen: Buchius, Levin . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 483.
- Wieslaw Litewski: Land law of the Duchy of Prussia from 1620. 5 volumes. Nakładem Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków 1983–1987.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Buchius, Levin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Levin book |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Legal scholar in the Duchy of Prussia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1550 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Werdau , Saxony |
| DATE OF DEATH | 23 August 1613 |
| Place of death | Koenigsberg i. Pr. |